Liberia, Oct. 5 -- PELELEI, Zota District, Bong County - The women came first, and they came together. Members of the Bong County Women Organization filed into the funeral grounds in Pelelei on Saturday carrying a gratitude that had been years in the making. Behind them came former players, former students, elders, businessmen and young people from Gbarnga, all gathered to bury a man who had asked Bong County for something four times and never received it.

By Selma Lomax, selma.lomax@frontpageafricaonline.com

Dr. Ranney Banama Jackson Sr. was 74 when he died. He served as Superintendent of Bong County from 2006 until January 28, 2011, a stretch of years when the county was still finding its feet after the long civil war. He then sought ...